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Created November 19, 2015 16:36
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A way to remove all HTML attributes with BeautifulSoup
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kill_attrs.py
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
def _remove_attrs(soup):
for tag in soup.findAll(True):
tag.attrs = None
return soup
def example():
doc = '<html><head><title>test</title></head><body id="foo" onload="whatever"><p class="whatever">junk</p><div style="background: yellow;" id="foo" class="blah">blah</div></body></html>'
print 'Before:\n%s' % doc
soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)
clean_soup = _remove_attrs(soup)
print '\nAfter:\n%s' % clean_soup
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